Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and
healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their
work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition
is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics
wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics.
With a distinguished international panel of contributors working at
the leading edge of academia, this volume presents a comprehensive guide
to the field, with state of the art introductions to the wide range of
topics in modern healthcare ethics, from consent to human rights, from
utilitarianism to feminism, from the doctor-patient relationship to
xenotransplantation.
This volume is the Second Edition of
the highly successful work edited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus
Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London and former editor
of the Journal of Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field.
Developments from the First Edition include:
The focus on ‘Four Principles Method’ is relaxed to cover more
different methods in health care ethics. More material on new medical
technologies is included, the coverage of issues on the doctor/patient
relationship is expanded, and material on ethics and public health is
brought together into a new section.
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